Early Detection of Phishing Sites with Enhanced Neural Network Models

Abstract

Phishing is a digital crime committed with the aim of obtaining personal data by creating a link or website that resembles the original. This form of cyber attack is caused by a notification in a text message, email, or phone call. A common anti-phishing countermeasure technique is to perform early detection of potentially phishing sites, primarily according to the source code features, which are required to traverse web page content, as well as third parties that slow down the process of clarifying phishing URLs. Although the latest technology has long been used in phishing early detection, there is still a need for manual feature engineering that is important and reliable enough to detect emerging phishing offenses. One of these involves training a neural network (NN) using a dataset of known phishing URLs and legitimate URLs. The research was conducted using 200 data, Data were separated into training and testing categories.  Training was done using 100 and 120 data. Training results on 100 data and 160 data had lower iterations and errors on the tanh activation function compared to the logistic activation function. The number of iterations that occur in logistic activation is as many as 400 iterations, while when using the tanh activation function only 175 iterations are needed.